The Brighton School is a radical, new, postgraduate studio for the sea-side city of Brighton. It aims to harness the talent and ideas of the students who pass through Brighton every year, putting this talent to work for the benefit of the city, at the same time as giving these students a way into the work they want to do.

The school’s first brief is a public art commission for London Road in Brighton; a busy, fast-changing street of pawn shops and ethical supermarkets, posh pubs and take-aways. The school will run for six months in a studio above London Road, with visiting tuition from practitioners including muf, AIR and Kathrin Böhm.

The first intake of the school comprises two architects, a film-maker, a sculptor and a fine artist: all paid two days a week to work on the project, with free studio space to develop their own practice in the rest of the time. By the end of June 2015, these graduates will produce a work of public art for London Road that is beautiful, ambitious and appropriate.

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The Brighton School is funded by Brighton & Hove City Council’s Section 106 scheme for developers and by Recreate, part-funded by INTERREG IV A France (Channel) England and the European Regional Development Fund.

Taking the form of eight billboards published on the walls of the building itself, the project aims to build up a new, honest picture of New England House.

In the face of the forthcoming £24 million regeneration of the building, we want to bring the community together, to find out what's made here, what's shared here, what's special about the building, and where it can go next. By revealing these stories, we hope to empower the current residents of the building to inform the regeneration, and help to ensure that any plans build on what makes New England House so special.

Multi-Story Factory is funded by Brighton & Hove City Council and by Recreate, part-funded by INTERREG IV A France (Channel) England and the European Regional Development Fund. The publication is edited by Tom James and Matt Weston, with artwork by Emily Macauley and Andy Felton. The project runs from September 2014 to March 2015.

Kilburn High Road is a classic London high­ street: packed with people, lined with cheap shops and cafes, and slowly losing its identity. Responding to a joint council brief for a pop­-up shop project, Spacemakers proposed that, rather than more shops, Kilburn needed new ideas, and a place to have them.

Learning from Kilburn is the result: a tiny, experimental university, of, for and about Kilburn. Drawing on the High Road as both curriculum and campus, the university offers a series of free classes, each led by a range of artists, architects and thinkers, and each studying a different aspect of the area.

With classes including 'What does Kilburn wear?', 'Where does Kilburn live?' and 'Does Kilburn even exist?', we aim to help local people study what makes Kilburn the place it is, and to create a space for the community to imagine new futures for the area.

Cricklewood, in North West London, is a community on the borders of three boroughs, and thus tends to be civically neglected: it has no public space, no town hall, no library, not even a single bench.

In response, Spacemakers created Cricklewood Town Square, a mobile public space, which could roam across the area, reclaiming forgotten patches of land, and transforming them into civic space for everyone to use.

From a disused grass space next to B&Q, to an empty pavement outside the Bingo Hall, the project demonstrated how even the most unlikely spaces can become community assets, and showed how vital public space is in forming a community in the first place.

Do Well and Doubt Not is a fanzine for and about Tottenham, published in the aftermath of the riots of 2011.

The fanzine, distributed for free, was composed of interviews with local people, published verbatim. It aimed to give the community a voice on post­-riots Tottenham: to let people celebrate their area, whilst also addressing the problems and opportunities that they see around them. Its name was taken from the discarded town motto, displayed on a coat of arms in the old town hall.

Spacemakers was formed in 2009, around a year long project to rethink a failing 1930s covered arcade in Brixton. The arcade had been going downhill for years, with twenty units sitting empty, and was slated for redevelopment: the owners planned to demolish half of it, and stick a ten-storey apartment block on top. After a successful community campaign to prevent this, Spacemakers were approached by Lambeth Council, to come up with a Plan B.

We took the keys to the empty units, and designed a project to rebuild the social life of the market, by offering three months free rent to anyone with an idea for reusing one of the spaces. In response, we received 98 proposals in one week, with people using the units for band rehearsals, galleries and meeting rooms, along with shops, cafes and proto-bars.

Together, these uses brought new life to the market, complementing the existing traders, and leading to the permanent establishment of a thriving, locally-powered economy in Brixton. By the time we finished our work in 2010, the market was fully let for the first time since 1979.